That's why people are so frightening.
You can't look inside of them.
You end up taking a hammer
and raising it over their temple
or breastbone or pelvis
but you flake out of the swing.
They say tenderness is a disease too.
You shouldn't hit anyone
with a flower.
A hammer hurts, but a flower will shatter a body.
David, you've never looked as scary
as you do now, arranging flowers
in a vase at my bedside. Black-eyed
Susans, lilacs, a sole white tulip.